Engraved illustrations of antient arms and armour,. from the collection of Llewelyn Meyrick, ... at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire; after the drawings, and with the descriptions of Dr. Meyrick, by Joseph Skelton, ...
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848)
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3175005.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.1., plates. ill... fol.. Tipped in inside: mounted photograph of 'Celtic helmet in the Museum Carolino Augusteum at Salzburg', with manuscript notes at foot and on verso, dated 1888. Provenance: Gardner Wilkinson Library.Nineteenth-century armorial bookplates: 'John Gardner Wilkinson Brynfield House.' [i.e. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1795-1875)]. Pencil note on pastedown: 2 vols. £4-4-0. Published at £11.17.6. Binding: Nineteenth-century black cloth, red leather spine label.
Provenance
Transferred to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of CTT in 1985 with an endowment provided by the NHMF.
Makers and roles
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783-1848) Llewelyn Meyrick (1804-1837) Joseph Skelton (1783-1871)